Low-flying pilot ‘hit power line, shone landing light at cars then asked passengers to lie’

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A pilot taking three passengers on a sightseeing flight over Pretoria flew so dangerously low over a road that he severed an overhead power line with his propeller.

A pilot taking three passengers on a sightseeing flight over Pretoria flew so dangerously low over a road that he severed an overhead power line with his propeller.

But according to the CAA “limited serious incident investigation report”, the pilot asked his passengers to lie about what happened and blame a student pilot who flew the plane the previous day for damage to the propeller.The power cable over Soutpan Road in Soshanguve which was hit by a low-flying four-seater plane in September 2021.

One of the passengers, a private pilot, told the investigator they descended to between 50ft and 100ft above the ground, flew over an open field then followed a road.

 

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